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Pan American Clipper
An apple brandy sour with grenadine and absinthe, in two published versions.
Go to the recipe ↓The Pan American Clipper is a shaken drink of apple brandy, citrus, grenadine and a little absinthe, strained into a cocktail glass. The main choice is what to do with the absinthe. Imbibe uses it only to coat the glass and pours off the excess. Punch shakes a dash of it into the drink.
Imbibe Magazine: absinthe-rinsed glass
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
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Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Put the apple brandy, lemon juice, lime juice and grenadine in a shaker with ice and shake until cold.
- Pour the absinthe into a cocktail glass, swirl it to coat the inside, then discard the excess.
- Strain the shaken drink into the coated glass.
Garnish None specified by the source.
- The 1 tsp of absinthe is for coating the glass. Most of it is poured off, so not all of it ends up in the drink.
- Use fresh lemon juice and fresh lime juice.
Recipe source: imbibemagazine.com ↗
Punch: absinthe shaken in
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Put the apple brandy, absinthe, lime juice and grenadine in a mixing tin.
- Shake with cracked ice.
- Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass.
Garnish None specified by the source.
- The single dash of absinthe goes into the tin and is shaken with everything else, so there is no separate glass-coating step.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Rinse or dash, and how much grenadine
Both versions use 1 oz of citrus in total. Imbibe divides it into ½ oz lemon and ½ oz lime, so you need both fruits; Punch uses lime alone. Imbibe pours more apple brandy, 2 oz against 1½ oz. The largest gap is the grenadine: ¾ oz in Imbibe, about four and a half times Punch's single teaspoon.
The absinthe changes the method more than the shopping list. Imbibe asks you to coat the glass before you strain, so prepare the glass while the drink is shaking. Punch needs only a chilled glass. Neither the rinse nor the dash scales exactly, so set the absinthe separately when you make several drinks.